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Saturday, 25 July 2015

Altered Coffee Jar

If you saw my blog post on Monday you will see I have been having a bit of a change from cards.

Today I bring you an altered coffee jar!

I have to thank Kathryn Halstead for her inspiration with this project.

Step by Step

1. I gave the jar and lid a coat of PVA glue to start with.

2. I embossed paper using Embossalicious Regal Flourish, tore them up and decopatched them onto both the jar and lid. I then gave it a coat of Black Gesso.

3. I then arranged all my embellishments which consisted of metal, wood, paper, lace, pearls to the jar and lid. I then gave the jar and lid 2 coats of black gesso, letting each coat dry first.

4. Once dry using a dry brush and white paint gently with the flat of the brush dusted over the areas where no embellishments where, this highlighted the embossed/torn paper, I think it looks like slate.

5. To finish off I went over the bird cages, pearl trim on jar and lid, all metal embellishments with Pebeo Studio Iridescent Copper and the flowers with Iridescent Red Blue.

This is just out of this world I cannot believe it started as a coffee jar and ended up as something you see in expensive shops. You have excelled yourself Linda with this project wonderful and perfect love and hugs Carole x